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mucopolysaccaridosis

mucopolysaccaridosis is the misspelling of mucopolysaccharidosis.

Meaning of mucopolysaccharidosis

Noun

mucopolysaccharidosis (countable and uncountable, plural mucopolysaccharidoses)

  1. Any of a group of metabolic disorders caused by the absence or malfunction of lysosomal enzymes needed to break down glycosaminoglycans.
    • The geneticist said Ryan had a rare genetic disorder called mucopolysaccharidosis I, or MPS I, with a wide-range of symptoms affecting multiple systems in the body.2017 May 13, Ashley Strickland, “Warned he would die by age 10, he just graduated college”, in CNN
    Synonyms:
    MPS

Questions about mucopolysaccaridosis

What is mucopolysaccaridosis the misspelling of?
Mucopolysaccaridosis is the misspelling of mucopolysaccharidosis.

Words near mucopolysaccaridosis in the dictionary

  1. mucophagia
  2. mucophagic
  3. mucophagy
  4. mucoplasties
  5. mucoplasty
  6. mucopolysaccaridosis
  7. mucopolysaccharase
  8. mucopolysaccharases
  9. mucopolysaccharidase
  10. mucopolysaccharidases
  11. mucopolysaccharide

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